Screen shot of the City of Ottawa's email feature story on distracted driving. Image: Ottawa
Ottawa’s reminder on distracted driving gets clarification from police Uber drivers are expected to obey distracted driving laws, the City of Ottawa says. On February 3, Ottawa distributed an email headed “Feature Story” providing fairly exhaustive information on Ontario’s distracted
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Electric bike Photo: Amazon
Delivery workers “very distressed” over recommendation Risk of fire on public transit vehicles means the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will consider prohibiting lithium battery electric scooters on TTC vehicles during the winter months at its Tuesday, October 29 meeting. Gig
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Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Photo: Uber
Surge pricing sneaking into more consumer purchases Would you pay more for an Uber if your phone battery was at 5 per cent power and you feared being stranded when it died? Would you cough up more money for concert
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Image: Province of British Columbia
Theft of workers’ tips being acknowledged? Following Ontario’s lead, the government of British Colombia is changing the definition of the term “minimum wage.” On June 12, BC released proposed legislation which, like Ontario’s law, divides a worker’s time into “engaged
Read Morefrom the Gig Workers’ United “X” feed What do we think of the new platform gig work regulations in BC? It’s great the provincial government recognizes that this is an unsustainable situation but we are disappointed that the legislation doesn’t
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The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has published its April 2024 report, focused on the tactics used by rideshare and delivery companies to move in to new jurisdictions and manipulate communities and workers. “Disrupting Democracy: How app corporations buy, bully,
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While early media reports said that a Beck Taxi had pinned a fare, in fact, it was not Beck and not a Taxi. A driver on a food delivery appears to have been pinned by his own vehicle. Photo: CityTV
On Monday, January 29, 2024, at approximately 7 p.m., police received a report of a Personal Injury collision involving a pedestrian in an alleyway in the Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue area. Early media reports claimed that a Beck Taxi fare
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Purolator employees who refused to share their medical information with the corporation (90 per cent owned by Canada Post) were sent home without pay, and many were then fired. Photo: RWN
“Banning unvaccinated workers from the workplace after June 2022 did nothing fortheir safety and contributed nothing to the safety of the others working there” Purolator employees and Owner/Operators should be compensated for the damages they suffered when they were put
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Purolator is 91 per cent owned by Canada Post. Photo: RWN
Purolator “unjustly terminated employment” Road Warrior News has obtained two memos from Teamsters Local Union Number 31, the British Columbia local which spearheaded the third successful grievance against Purolator Inc. Purolator, which is owned 91 per cent by the federal
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